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- Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 20:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
- Subject: Re: MAUS
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- In-Reply-To: <9405312357.AA11445@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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- On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Warwick Allison wrote:
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- > Michel Forget wrote:
- > >
- > >If this was a "verbose mode" option (ie: it could be turned off) then
- > >it would be good. I've never made this mistake, though, so I would
- > >be very annoyed if the program kept asking me questions every time
- > >I tried to perform a 'dangerous' block operation.
- >
- > You must delete entire documents very often :).
- >
- > ^A[DELETE] is a dangerous combination.
- >
- > [drag-large-area][DELETE] is not.
- >
- > Only if the entire document is to be deleted is the operation dangerous.
- >
- > --
- > Warwick
- >
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- ^A+ANYTHING is a bad combination. It's not ctrl-A or what happens after
- that is the problem, but rather the combination. Since what happens
- after is always going to happen, and the only thing that remains the same
- is the ctrl-A, then removing the ctrl-A would solve the problem.
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